Illusion
Illusion opens with a herbal pairing: basil's green, slightly peppery freshness and thyme's sharp, camphorous bite.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Thyme
- Sandalwood
- White Musk
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readIllusion opens with a herbal pairing: basil's green, slightly peppery freshness and thyme's sharp, camphorous bite. The combination reads masculine and clean — culinary-adjacent but decidedly bracing rather than sweet.
White musk and ambergris form the base. Ambergris contributes a marine-amber warmth — smooth, slightly salty — that adds lift and longevity. White musk keeps the dry-down soft. Together they transform the sharp herbal opening into something warmer and skin-friendly.
This is a fresh herbal over marine-amber composition — simple and linear, but the ambergris gives it more staying power than the minimal structure would suggest. The transition from green herbs to warm marine-amber is the central movement.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
